— MELISSA Q. WOOD · /HOME
Researcher at the edges of access.
I'm a psychology graduate working toward mental health counseling, with research interests in BRCA testing, matrescence, and the communication of risk. This is a quiet corner of the internet where I keep that work in the open.
B.A. Psychology
American University.
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Graduate training at the intersection
of counseling and psychological research.
ON MY DESK · RIGHT NOW
Three things on my desk right now.
A small, honest list of what I'm working on this month. Each one has a page with a changelog of recent updates; when something wraps up, it graduates into a blog or project post.
Building this website.
A hand-built corner of the internet. No CMS, no tracking, no metrics dashboards.
Read the logSEO research for the BRCA resource.
Figuring out what people actually type into Google at 1am after a family-history conversation.
Read the logTeaching myself linear algebra.
Working through 3Blue1Brown + Strang. Goal: read computational papers without eye-glaze.
Read the logChance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward. — Amy Tan